Canopy-frame



(No Model.)

C. WILLIAMS.

GANOPY FRAME.

Patented Feb. 2, 1892 www" um "mlm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARTER VILLIAMS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CANOPY-FRAM E.

sPncIFIcArIoN forming part of Letters Patent N. 468,280, dated February 2, 1892.

Application iiled August l, 1891.

To @LZ whom, it may concer/1,:

Be it known that I, CARTER WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented and produced a new and useful Improvement in Canopy- Frames, of which the following is a specification, illustrated by the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof and to which reference is had.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in canopies or shelter-awnings for sidewalks, and is especially designed to be erected in the front of dwellings and places of entertainment in such manner as to extend from the curb of the sidewalk to the entrance of the building, whereby persons alighting from vehicles to the sidewalk may have a dry and sheltered entrance to the building, the canopy being constructed insuch manner that the same shall be readily and quickly erected and disconnected and be capable of being packed Within a small compass for easy transportation; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, and afterward definitely pointed out in the claim, due reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specilication, wherein*- Figure l is a perspective view showing the frame in position. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the hood; and Fig. 3, a detail view of a portion of the forward orfront pair of top rafters, illustrating the kerfs adapted to receive the clamps by means of which the hood is secured thereto.

Referring to said drawings, theletter A indicates four uprights or standards of rectangular shape in cross-section and of suitable length to raise the canopy to the proper height. The upper ends of each of said uprights are fitted in one member of a hollow elbow B, and in the other member of said elbows are fitted the lower ends of top rafters D, the meetingV ends of said top rafters being fitted in hollow elbows E. The elbows B and E are each provided with a headed bolt C, which passes through suitable perforations in said elbows and corresponding perforations in the uprights and top rafters and is secured therein by means of thumb-nuts c.

F F indicate the side rails or braces, con

Serial No, l201.395. (No model.)

sisting of wooden strips provided at each end with flat metallic plates f, provided with notches, which engage the headed ends of the bolts C. A similar rail F' extendsfroin one apex of the top rafters D to the other and is secu red to the elbows E Ein the same manner as the side rails F. The front or forward pair of top rafters D are each at or about their cent-ers provided upon their Lipper and lower sides with grooves or kerfs d, for the purpose hereinafter described. Y

G indicates the hood, consisting of a rectangular` frame g, divided longitudinally at its center and united by means of hinges g g. To each inner corner of said hood are secured vertically-depending braces g2 g2, from `the lower end of each of which extend diagonal braces g3 g3, which at their upper ends are secured to the rear of said rectangular frame near the hinges, and additional diagonal braces g4 gL extend from the depending braces g2 to the sides of the rectangularfralne g. At or about the center of each of the diagonal braces g3 are secured by screws, bolts, or rivets clamps II, which are adapted to embrace the grooves ol of the forward pair of top rafters D, and are secured therein by means of thumb-screws h. The frame thus constructed is designed to be covered bya canvas or other covering cutto iit the same, thus affording shelter from the curb to the entrance of a building, the hoods G protecting the exit from the vehicle.

Constructed as above described the entire frame can be readily and easily set up by inserting the standards and top rafters in the elbows, slipping the side rails and ridge-rail in place, and then vtightening up the thumbscrews, after which the hood is clamped upon the outer pair of top rafters, as before described, and the canvas or other covering draped over the frame. In like manner the frame may be disconnected, the uprights, top rafters, side rails, and ridge-rail compactly bound together, and the hoodfolded over upon its hinges, and the whole wrapped up in or with the covering to form a compact package easily susceptible of transportation.

It will be readily understood that the uprights, top rafters, and ridge and side rails may be employed to form a series of frames, which, placed end to end, will co-operate to IOC form a canopy of any desired length, only one hood being necessary'.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In a canopy of the class described,the combination, with the main frame comprising the uprights A, top rafters D, two of said top rafters being provided with kerfs CZ CZ, side rails F, and top rail F', of the hood G, consisting of a rectangular frame g, longitudinally divide-d and hinged at its center and provided at its rear corners with two vertically-depending braces g2, the lower ends of whichl are connected to the frame g by inclined braces g3 g4, and clamps H, secured to the braces gS and provided with thumb-Screws h, said clamps resting in the kerfs dd of the top rafters D and Secured therein by Said set-screws, substantially as shown and described.

CARTER WILLIAMS.

Witnesses J oSEPII S. Woon, JAS. HENRY WILLIAMS. 

